Terumoto Ishaki

Terumoto Ishaki (19 March 1915-15 September 1944) was a captain of the Imperial Japanese Army. Ishaki was killed in the Battle of Peleliu in World War II.

Biography
Terumoto Ishaki was born in Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture, Japan on 19 March 1915. Ishaki enlisted in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and he commanded a small unit of troops on the island of Peleliu during World War II. When the United States invaded the island, Ishaki and his force held them back at a series of trenches and bunkers near the entrance to a swamp, but he was killed by a hand grenade.